{"id":562,"date":"2011-06-21T15:49:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/?p=562"},"modified":"2011-06-21T15:49:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T19:49:46","slug":"summer-solstice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html","title":{"rendered":"Summer Solstice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Calendar and our awareness of the clicks of the seconds on a timepiece are all structures which we have built.\u00a0 They are agreements we have made with the larger “other” of our communities so that trains can pass and have semblance of order – for example.\u00a0 Or so that we all know when to say to someone, “Happy Birthday to you.”\u00a0 So on this day of longest light…I offer some inspiring quotes intended to get you thinking… about what is\u00a0 and what seems.<\/p>\n

All the spheres revolve about the sun as their mid-point, and therefore the sun is the center of the universe.\u00a0 Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543)<\/p>\n

We take our understanding of the universe and our earthly seasons for granted.\u00a0 But for Galileo – his observations were a matter of great controversy…<\/p>\n

The doctrine of the movements of the earth and the fixity of the sun is condemned on the ground that the Scriptures speak in many places of the sun moving and the earth standing still…It is piously spoken that the Scriptures cannot lie.\u00a0 But none will deny that they are frequently abstruse and their true meaning difficult to discover, and more than the bare words signify.\u00a0 One taking the sense too literally might pervert the truth and conceive blasphemies, and give God feet, and hands, and eyes and human affections, such as anger, repentance, forgetfulness, ignorance, whereas these expressions are employed merely to accommodate the truth to the mental capacity of the unlearned.\u00a0 Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642) The Authority of Scriptur ein Philosophical Controversies – Condemned by the Inquisition)<\/p>\n

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.\u00a0 Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)<\/p>\n

I cannot say what loves have come and gone, \/ I only know that summer sang in me\/ A little while, that in me sings no more.\u00a0 Edna St. Vincent Millay (1923 written)<\/p>\n

Sunglasses are the twentieth-century equivalent of fans and veils.\u00a0 People use sunglasses to hide themselves.\u00a0 There is a particular art to taking off sun glasses, of choosing exactly the right moment to reveal yourself.\u00a0 Jane Seymour (from Guide to Romantic Living, 1986)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calendar and our awareness of the clicks of the seconds on a timepiece are all structures which we have built.\u00a0 They are agreements we have made with the larger “other” of our communities so that trains can pass and have semblance of order – for example.\u00a0 Or so that we all know when to say…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[278,275,271,277,81,274,276,273,270,272,279,280],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artful-graces","tag-copernicus","tag-edna-st-vincent-millay","tag-first-day-of-summer","tag-galileo","tag-inspiring-quotes","tag-jane-seymour","tag-niccolo-machiavelli","tag-quotes-on-summer","tag-solstice","tag-summer-solstice","tag-sun","tag-sunglasses"],"yoast_head":"\nSummer Solstice - Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Summer Solstice - Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Calendar and our awareness of the clicks of the seconds on a timepiece are all structures which we have built.\u00a0 They are agreements we have made with the larger “other” of our communities so that trains can pass and have semblance of order – for example.\u00a0 Or so that we all know when to say…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-06-21T19:49:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/files\/2011\/06\/tuesday-post-300x178.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mary anne radmacher\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Summer Solstice - Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Summer Solstice - Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures","og_description":"Calendar and our awareness of the clicks of the seconds on a timepiece are all structures which we have built.\u00a0 They are agreements we have made with the larger “other” of our communities so that trains can pass and have semblance of order – for example.\u00a0 Or so that we all know when to say…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html","og_site_name":"Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures","article_published_time":"2011-06-21T19:49:46+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/files\/2011\/06\/tuesday-post-300x178.jpg"}],"author":"mary anne radmacher","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html","name":"Summer Solstice - Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/files\/2011\/06\/tuesday-post-300x178.jpg","datePublished":"2011-06-21T19:49:46+00:00","dateModified":"2011-06-21T19:49:46+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/#\/schema\/person\/9dc771cd6fc3b9530926e5dfa2cdbd41"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/files\/2011\/06\/tuesday-post-300x178.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/dailyjoys\/files\/2011\/06\/tuesday-post-300x178.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/2011\/06\/summer-solstice.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Summer Solstice"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/","name":"Daily Joys and Simple Pleasures","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Mary Anne Radmacher","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/#\/schema\/person\/9dc771cd6fc3b9530926e5dfa2cdbd41","name":"mary anne radmacher","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/684\/684e8710f7c7eef0c0c433b1f635ffc4x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-content\/wphb-cache\/gravatar\/684\/684e8710f7c7eef0c0c433b1f635ffc4x96.jpg","caption":"mary anne radmacher"},"description":"You may follow my writing life on my Author\/Like page: facebook.com\/MaryAnneRadmacher Find many of the products I create in the store at: appliedinsight.net I've been creating and contributing to the gift and publishing industry for thirty years. My work is often identified by my proprietary, dancing lettering. I am most known for my poem beginning, \"Courage doesn't always roar...\"I am approaching a dozen published books and continue to create, write, craft and inspire myself and others. I'm passionate about making the world a more healthy, inspired, safe place and take small actions, daily, toward that goal. I have always believed that one person can and does make a difference.","sameAs":["http:\/\/appliedinsight.net"],"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/author\/mradmacher"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/dailyjoys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}